| Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology
80 % Department of Basic Science and Environment 6 % Institute of Food and Resource Economics 14 % | |||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year | ||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: Written examination in the form of individual reports. Students are expected to select a topic close the general area of their master's thesis (this course is ideally taken immediately prior to initiating the master's project). 7-point scale, internal examiner | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | THIS COURSE WILL BE REPLACED BY THE COURSE "ADVANCED BIOTECHNOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS". IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO SIGN UP FOR THIS NEW COURSE ON FEBRUARY 9, 2009. Lectures, Computer exercises, Case studies, Journal Club, Excursions | ||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 4 Week Structure: C | ||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||
| The main objective of the course is to introduce the students to intellectual property rights in biotechnology and the roles that patenting plays in business development. The course covers aspects of biotechnological opportunities with examples from pharmaceutical industry, food production, production of non-food products by fermentation, and production in plants. Basic patent law, principles of patenting and IPR and use of patent databases are key areas while start-up of companies, investments, development of business plans will be briefly touched upon. After completing the course, the students should be able to: Knowledge -Describe the relationship between patenting and scientific discovery -Describe the patenting process and how it relates to the international patent authorities and organizations. -Understand patents as strategic tools in business developement -Understand how intellectual property rights relates to and handles genetic sequences and other biological material Skills -use patent databases to search and find patent documents of relevance to a particular invention or field -recognize different patent document types -follow a patent application through the filing process and determine patent family relationships -analyse patents and patent examination reports -determine the freedom to operate for a given new biotechnological product emphasizing intellectual property rights but also touching upon market analysis and financing of start-up companies, i.e. entrepreneurship in general. Competences -Collaboration with other students in patent computer exercises, evaluation of patent landscape for a given item or process | |||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| The course is taught through a series of lectures with parallel case studies and journal clubs. Patenting and use of patent literature is also taught in computer exercises. The students will meet entrepreneurs as invited speakers and an excursion will be made to a young, research driven biotech company. | |||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||
| Inventions and products based on genetic sequences in white, red and green biotechnology. Small molecule pharmaceuticals and rational drug design. Reading and understanding patents, finding patent literature in databases and evaluate the state of a patent application and knowledge of the principles of Intellectual Property Rights. Development of biotechnological products, including knowledge about defining and identifying a commercially interesting problem or opportunity. How to identify a market for a new product. | |||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||
| No text book. Patent material and papers will be provided. | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Peter Ulvskov, p.ulvskov@dias.kvl.dk, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology/Guests at IP, Phone: 3528 | |||||||||||||
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